Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish I had space to tell you the special steps we had to take to get the full Invasion story into our editions printed in Mexico City, BogÓta, SÃo Paulo, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Cairo, Teheran, New Delhi, Sydney, and Honolulu and still get the issue out on time. It is a story of wirephoto, of plane delivery, of special teletype hookups and of wonderful cooperation from many friends of TIME-a story that fills seven pages double-spaced...
Everybody Fights. General Sir Harold Alexander, the Allied commander in Italy, had every reason to be proud of his polyglot armies. The doughty Poles took Monte Cairo, a rock mass more than a mile high, and Piedimonte; Amaseno and Castro dei Volsci fell to the French and their black colonials; United Kingdom troops entered Aquino and swart fighters from India occupied Roccasecca. The Canadians, some of whom nonchalantly swam the Liri River, took Ceprano...
While they chafed, soldiers talked politics. Egged on by smuggled pamphlets and haranguing junior officers, the men grew angry over the reluctance of their Cabinet In Exile to form a national Government with representatives from the fighting factions in Greece. Last April they sent a truculent delegation to Cairo with a demand for political action. The royalist Greek Cabinet, with British support, remained unmoved...
This was the story, outlined by Winston Churchill (see International) and long suppressed by the Cairo censor, of a Greek Army mutiny in the Egyptian desert...
...desert camp mutiny flared. The disgruntled Greeks swiftly took control from officers loyal to the Cairo regime. Sternly British General Sir Bernard Paget ordered the mutineers to lay down their arms, submit to authority. The Greeks argued that they were merely staging a political demonstration. The British said that mixing politics with soldiering was a breach of discipline. When words failed, General Paget moved up a British armored force, issued an ultimatum...